January 27, 2015
Down to Earth With: Deep-Sea submersible Alvin
Every oceanographer knows Alvin. Since 1964, the legendary deep submergence vehicle has carried more than 12,000 scientists and other observers …
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January 27, 2015
Down to Earth With: Deanna D'Alessandro
Deanna D’Alessandro, a chemist at the University of Sydney in Australia, is working on a new material that may make it cheaper and easier to …
January 27, 2015
Down to Earth With: The Swindling Geologist
When Clarence Dutton spoke, people listened. As one of the most famous geologists of the late 1800s, he regularly attracted large crowds to his …
January 27, 2015
Down to Earth With: Pat Pringle
After finishing a master’s degree in geology at the University of Akron in 1982, Pat Pringle left the relative flatlands of Ohio’s Allegheny …
January 27, 2015
Down to Earth With: Lee Allison
_Editor’s Note: Lee Allison was head of the Arizona Geological Survey until his unexpected death on Aug. 16, 2016. EARTH interviewed him in 2012 …
January 26, 2015
Down to Earth With: Geologist Kyle House
Kyle House, a research geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Geology and Geophysics Science Center in Flagstaff, Ariz., gravitated to …
January 13, 2015
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Richard Alley
If you don’t know who Richard Alley is, stop reading for a minute and search for him on YouTube. Go on, this can wait. Back? What you likely saw …
January 13, 2015
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Stephen Sparks
From the Caribbean to Iceland to the Andes, volcanologist Stephen Sparks has spent a lifetime studying volcanoes. As a professor of geology at …
January 13, 2015
Down to Earth With: The Geographers of the Solar System
Certain government officials have super cool titles: for example, Planetary Protection Officer (NASA’s Catharine Conley) and Oceanographer of the …
January 13, 2015
Down to Earth With: Snow Hydrologist Jeff Dozier
It’s mid-January. Snow hydrologist Jeff Dozier relaxes at his sister’s cabin near Lake Tahoe, his bare feet resting on a coffee table. His …
January 13, 2015
Down to Earth With: Geomorphologist Gregory Tucker
As an undergraduate anthropology student, Gregory Tucker thought math was a boring subject with abstract rules that didn’t relate to his life. …
January 13, 2015
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist John Eichelberger
The 2010 eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull showed that volcanic hazards are blind to international borders. After the eruption ended and air …
January 4, 2015
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson
As a child growing up in Gassaway, W.Va., Lonnie Thompson was poor. When his father died while Thompson was a senior in high school, he realized …
December 19, 2014
Down to Earth With: Bruce Benson
In a remarkable career spanning nearly 50 years, Bruce Benson has held just two jobs. In 1965, a year after earning his bachelor’s degree in …
December 18, 2014
Down to Earth With: Lawson Brigham
Lawson Brigham, a Distinguished Professor of Geography and Arctic Policy at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks and retired U.S. Coast Guard …
December 18, 2014
Down to Earth With: Jacob Haqq-Misra
Jacob Haqq-Misra is all but addicted to music, which is why the astrobiologist balances his time between research and performing as a …
December 18, 2014
Down to Earth With: Brian Tucker
Some of the world’s most densely populated cities are at highest risk for earthquake-related disasters. Geophysicist Brian Tucker has spent the …
December 18, 2014
Down to Earth With: Terry Plank
“You’re a genius! Now here’s half a million dollars to use however you please.” That, in essence, was what geochemist and volcanologist Terry …
December 18, 2014
Down to Earth With: Adrian Hunt
Adrian Hunt grew up in England, but after earning his undergraduate degree in geology at the University of Manchester, he began looking for …
December 17, 2014
Down to Earth With: James Balog
Photographer James Balog is known for his groundbreaking environmental photography that examines intersections of humans and nature. His work has …
December 17, 2014
Down to Earth With: James White
James White contends that he has one claim to fame: He grew up just 50 kilometers from Dolly Parton in eastern Tennessee. His father worked as a …
December 16, 2014
Down to Earth With: Anna Henderson
Politicians and pundits communicate with talking points. In Washington, D.C., a catchy sound bite often trumps a filibustering speech, and a …
December 16, 2014
Down to Earth With: Tanya Atwater
When Tanya Atwater began graduate school in marine geology in 1967, it was considered unlucky for women to be aboard ships. Undaunted, Atwater …
December 16, 2014
Down to Earth With: Kirk Johnson
In 1967, at a family picnic in Casper, Wyo., 6-year-old Kirk Johnson stumbled across a fossil that looked to him like an ancient rattlesnake tail …